Belgian Senator Alain Destexhe has questioned whether major terrorist attacks, like the Bataclan massacre in Paris or the Brussels airport bombing, would have occurred if the migrant crisis of 2015 had never happened. Senator Destexhe also criticised the Belgian government for allowing the rise

A secret report prepared for the Belgian parliament by former police and judicial officials from the Standing Police Monitoring Committee claims that national authorities had multiple opportunities to stop the terrorists responsible for recent attacks in Paris and Brussels.

AFP – Salah Abdeslam, a surviving member of the group that carried out the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people, will be questioned by French investigators for the first time on Friday. For months, Abdeslam was the most

A “highly classified” police watchdog’s report into Belgium’s response to the Paris attacks shows Belgian police had information as early as mid-2014 that the Abdeslam brothers intended to carry out “an irreversible act”. As part of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people

The Islamic State militant Salah Abdeslam, one of the masterminds behind the Friday-the-Thirteenth Paris massacre that killed 130 people last November, was extradited from Belgium to France early Wednesday morning.

Brussels (AFP) – Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon (pictured) said Saturday that a “significant” part of the Muslim population celebrated attacks, blaming the country’s policies for failing to integrate migrants into society. He did not explicitly refer to last month’s

Police have uncovered a large and growing network of Islamic State fighters, at least two of whom came to Europe as “refugees.” French and Belgian authorities have found that the scale of the threat of terrorism could be much bigger

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, decided not to blow himself up during the wave of killings in the French capital last year, his brother said. Mohamed Abdeslam said his brother “voluntarily chose not to blow himself

BRUSSELS, March 20 (Reuters) – After the Paris attacks, security forces searched far and wide for prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after returning to Brussels, believing Islamic State could have spirited him away to Turkey, Syria or Morocco. It

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks said on Sunday he would sue a French prosecutor for divulging his client’s admission that he had planned to blow himself up with fellow

BRUSSELS (AP) — After a bullet in the leg ended his four-month flight from the law, Salah Abdeslam started a legal fight Saturday against his extradition from Belgium to France, where the president and the families of 130 victims want

The question on everyone’s lips was “have they got him?” as rumours spread in a run-down Brussels district Friday that Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam had finally been arrested in their midst. As the rumour morphed into blaring news headlines

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – One of the main suspects in the Paris attacks from last November, Salah Abdeslam has been wounded and caught by police in an operation on Friday afternoon in the Brussels quarter of Molenbeeck, Belgian media reported. One

BRUSSELS, March 18 (Reuters) – The most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks is wounded and holed up in a Brussels shootout, Belgian newspaper DH reported on Friday. A police spokeswoman said an operation was ongoing and could not give

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police found fingerprints of the most wanted fugitive from November’s Paris attacks at the scene of a shootout this week, officials said on Friday, and the public broadcaster said he may have narrowly evaded capture. The

Belgian prosecutors have announced shots were today fired at police in Belgium’s capital city, Brussels, as they carried out a major counter-terror operation linked to November’s Islamist Paris attacks. Federal prosecutor spokesman, Eric Van Der Sypt, announced police were fired at, but

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Move over FBI: Europe now has its own “most wanted” list, with suspects in Islamist militant attacks on Paris looming large. European police agencies on Friday introduced the list on a website hosted by Europol, as part

CAIRO (Reuters) – A video published on Sunday by the media centre of Islamic State claimed to show images and last statements of nine of the people who took part in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on Nov.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian court released from custody on Friday one of 10 people charged with involvement in the Paris attacks because of insufficient evidence against him, his lawyer said. Ayoub Bazarouj, 22, was detained after a search of

The terrorist who led the bloody Paris terror attacks in November entered the UK on a fake passport to seek logistical support from jihadis in Britain just weeks before the atrocity was committed, according to reports. It is claimed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud,

A manhunt is reportedly under way in Germany targeting 12 people who used fake Syrian passports to gain entry to the country before disappearing. German news outlets say the fake Syrian passports were most likely taken by Islamic State (IS) operatives when the

Police stopped suspected Paris bomber Salah Abdeslam three times just a few hours after last month’s attacks but let him go free each time, investigators have confirmed. It was previously thought Mr Abdeslam was stopped just once by a traffic

According to the Belgian Justice Minister, police delayed their raid on the suspected Molenbeek hiding place of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam because of a ban on night-time raids. As a result the fugitive escaped. It is believed the Brussels-born Paris attacks

Austrian police have arrested two people with suspected links to the Paris attacks, prosecutors said Wednesday, with an Austrian newspaper reporting the two are French citizens posing as refugees. “Two people coming from the Middle East were arrested at the